The award is given to the programming language that gained most market share in 2012. According to TIOBE, the market share of Objective-C is 3.37 percent higher than it was in January 2012.

SEE: Programming languages: Go and Python are what developers most want to learn "In 2014 Apple announced the new programming language Swift to be the successor of Objective-C.

Right from the beginning, Objective-C and C++ competed to become the de facto object-oriented programming language, TIOBE said. It took quite some years before C++ could claim victory.

The alternative PyPL Popularity of Programming Language Index, which analyzes how often language tutorials are searched on in Google, has Objective-C ranked in eighth place this month, with a 5.5 ...

#9: Objective-C A collection of seashells. Joan Slatkin/Getty Images Objective-C is the primary programming language used for writing applications for Apple's operating systems MacOS and iOS.

Objective-C is now more popular than C++, showing proof that mobile development is surging ahead as we enter the post-PC era. Objective-C is the object oriented programming language used by ...

Objective-C is based on the C programming language and is used to build OS X and iOS operating systems and apps. It was developed originally by Brad Cox and Tom Love in the 1980s and used for NeXT ...

Apple's Swift has far-reaching effects on all platforms, not just iOS, OS X, watchOS and tvOS. Learn why Swift matters, how to use the programming language and how it differs from Objective-C.

But Objective-C is 30 years old. And after several years in development, Apple has revealed its successor to work alongside the aging veteran and transition to a more modern language that's ...

Best programming languages for coders compared, including Swift, Python, Java, C and Perl. Coding has never been more popular, and learning to program in Mac OS X is a great skill to get.